On Thursday 03 February 2005 03:58 pm, Manu wrote:
> I was reading the documentation on how to build source
> package on debian.. is there an automated way so that
> I can directly get the source and rebuild
> automatically the source package?
Not really, no. Nothing is stopping you from trying, though.
> Also, is there any gain in performance ? has anyone
> notice any differences?
For the vast majority of stuff, not really, no, unless you're a Gentoo
ricer. Then it's 2 trillion times faster in your head alone.
http://www.funroll-loops.org/
Packages that benefit from subarchitecture optimizations tend to have
subarchitecture-specific packages already (for example, I have
mplayer-k7 and kernel-image-2.6.10-k7 installed; you can probably guess
my subarchitecture by the package name).
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Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca
http://ursine.ca/~baloo/